≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Korea, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Romance
Director: Cheol-su Park
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I’ve been watching Asian cinema for about 30 years now, and during that time I’ve seen countless explicit sex scenes, but watching Green Chair, I actually found myself getting turned on. That’s a first.
Mun-hee (Jung Suh) has been sentenced to a short prison term, followed […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Romance/ Action
Director: Jong-seok Yoon
Year: 2009
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WORTH A LOOK
There is such a thing as having too many twists in a plot. In Marine Boy, the characters seem to be one thing, then another, then another, and then another yet again. The only point of stability is the title character. In the climax, the […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Lee Sang-yong
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
4th Period Mystery is really a movie for kids, which isn’t meant to knock it. It declines to examine the situation it presents in a thoroughly realistic manner. Instead, it presents a world taken from a kid’s eye view.
Notice that I don’t say that […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ha Yu
Year: 2004
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Once Upon a Time in High School is an unexpected delight. With that title, I was expecting a ton of martial arts and junior varsity gangster stuff, with comic overtones. Instead, Once Upon a Time in High School is a memory […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/Drama/Romance
Director: Ha Yu
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Leave it to the Koreans to create a love story that shames Hollywood with an intelligent adult treatment of forbidden love.
As a young man, the King (Jin-mo Ju) decides to create an honor guard that he can fully trust, drafting young boys and having them trained […]